Resource Code: Innovating the VC Firm with Platform & Community | Rob Hayes, First Round Capital
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Rob Hayes, Partner, First Round Capital Since the beginning of venture capital time, the "product" that VCs offer has been money and , if you were lucky, a smart partner. That is changing quickly as investors begin to use platforms and network effects to improve the quality if the offering they bring to the companies they work with. Come hear how one leading venture firm thinks about how they can best serve their customers.
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Innovating VC with Platform and Community
An entrepreneur’s job is complex
Venture Business is Simple
Simple ≠ Easy
2. Help Companies
1. Pick Companies
2. Help Companies
1. Money
2. Partner Advice
1. Money
2. Partner Advice
1. Money
2. Partner Advice
Operating experience
Portfolio experience
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- Knowledge “how do I do x?”
- Talent
- Business Development/Partnerships
- Research/Insights
Venture
Capitalist Company 3
Company 2
Company 1
Company 4
1. Money
2. Partner Advice
Where’s the Innovation?
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What Should You Be
Asking For From Your
VC?
We Asked Ourselves the
Same Question
Venture
Capitalist Company 3
Company 2
Company 1
Company 4
Venture
Capitalist
Company 3
Company 2
Company 1
Company 4
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CEOs-
Please forward this (immediately) to anyone you know with MySQL scalability and tuning expertise.
Have them call me at xxx.xxx.xxxx!
We thought we prepared for some scale (we spent all last week testing), but we've had about 150,000
unique visitors in the past 24 hours, and over 20,000 signups. Each signup adds 3-4 financial
accounts with hundreds to thousands of financial transactions per account.
Our site is crawling, and we've isolated it to our MySQL DB. I think we have the hardware to handle it
(16 GB of mem, 15,000 RPM RAID 10 disks, 8-CPU box). However, we need a real expert to:
1) Make sure we have the right configuration parameters and caching (immediately)
2) Help us with database partitioning or replication strategies (in the next few days)
We're well funded. We can pay well for assistance.
Even if it's just a simple phone call to give us any pointers we might not have thought of, we could use
the help.
Thanks,
Aaron
Founder & CEO, Mint.com
Peer to Peer Model
- Curated
- Trusted
- Collaborative
- Confidential
Built Tons More
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The Result
- Software driven network effects
- Transformative value outside of the C-Suite
- More successful companies
- More fun
1. Money
2. Partner Advice
3. Community / Network
Push Your VC Partners
Thank You
